Basket-Hilt Rapier

1625-1650 (Baroque) 53 11/16 in. (136.3 cm) Citation Source image

The basket shape of the hilt completely encloses the hand in a system of connected, curving bars that extend from the guard to the pommel. The blade is exceptionally long, with a flattened diamond section that turns to a hexagonal section, and is deeply grooved at the hilt.The...

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Duca d'Aosta; Henry Griffith Keasbey, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, American Art Association, New York, November 27-28, 1925, no. 104; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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